A small but pretty calcite grotto lies just below the lowest camp in Veryovkina [cave], in the Western Caucasus mountains. Pictured here, my photo assistant and good friend Jeff Wade follows Roman Zverev and Natasha Sizikova down a ramp coated in thick flowstone. It is very rare and unusual to see so much flowstone and pretty stal this deep underground, espically in an active cave that fills to the roof in flood conditions. A week later, during the flood pulse that suddenly plummeted into these chambers, all of this gallery completely filled up with water and was totally submerged.